Chalk-holder.



G. V. NORMAN & G. PETERSON.

GHALKHOLDER, APPLICATION FILED APR.16. 1909.

I Patented Nov. 2, '1909.

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CHALK-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov.2, 1909.

Application filed April is, 1909. s e ria11wo. 490,333.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that we, CARL VICTOR N 0R- MAN andGusTAvUs PETERSON, both citizens of the United States of-America,and residents of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Chalk-Holder, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in devices designed to be attached to billard and pool cues for holding chalk, and comprises a latch-provided receptacle adapted to be secured within the butt end of a cue and having a resilient member therein, and a cap for the chalk which cap is capable of being retained in said receptacle'by the latch and of being released from the latter and ejected by said resilient member, all as hereinafter set forth'.

The objects of our invention are, first, to produce a simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive chalk-holding attachment for cues, which is not only practicable, efficient, convenient, and compact, but prevents soiling the fingers with the chalk, something whichheretofore it has not been easy to avoid; second, to provide such a device which can very readily be attached to the butt of any ordinary cue, and, third, to furnish a cue equipped with this holder with a cushion at the butt end, if desired. We attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a one having our chalk-holder incorporated therewith; Fig. 2, a side elevation of said one turned a quarter ofthe way around from theposition shown in the preceding view and with a portion broken away so as to disclose a complete side elevation of said holder; Fig. 3, a View similar to that shown in Fig. 2 excepting that the holder is here in longitudinal section; Fig. 4, a cross section on lines H, looking in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3, and, Fig. 5, a side elevation of the cap detached.

Similar figures refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings we represent at 1 part of a one which includes its enlarged butt end. The one 1 has an annular chamber 2 therein which opens through the butt end of said cue, also through one side of the one at 3. There is a longitudinal oifset 5 in one side of the chamber 2in line with the opening 3 but not extending thereto.

One of the members of the chalk-holder is a tubular receptacle 6, closed at its inner end l and open at its outer end, which is adapted to fit in the chamber 2 where it is securely fastened by means of a screw 7 that passes-throughithe inner end of said receptacle into the one 1. An ejector spring 8 is supported in the center of the receptacle 6 by means of the screw 7, the inner terminal of said spring being firmly held between the adjacent end of said receptacle and the head of said screw.

There is a slot 9 in one side of the receptacle 6 which coincides with. the ofiset or groove 5 in the one 1, both said slot and said groove being for the accommodation of the outer, hooked terminal of a latch 10. The

latch 10 is pivoted at 11 to the receptacle, and the inner terminal of said latch is wholly inside of said receptacle. A stud 12 extends into the opening 3 from the aforesaid inner terminal of the latch, after passing through a suitable opening therefor in the side of the receptacle, and has a push-button 13 on its outer end, which button is also in said opening 3. A spring 14 is interposed between the outside of the receptacle 6 and the inner surface of the push-button 13, in the opening 3, to tension said button outward and normally retain the latch 10 with its inner terminal against the adjacent wall of said receptacle on the inside so that a hook 15 at the outer end of said latch protrudes from the slot 9 into the interior of the receptacle.

A tubular cap16, which constitutes the chalk-holder proper, is provided. This cap worn away. A piece of chalk in the cap is represented at 18. Access to the chalk 18 is had-through theopen end of the cap, or said chalk may project somewhat beyond such end as it probably will when new. Around the outside of the cap 16 is a shoulder 19, produced in the present case by grooving the cap, so located that the latchhook 15 engages it when said cap is pushed into the receptacle 6 as far as the flange 17 permits, and so locks the cap'to the receptacle and prevents the former from being expelled by the spring 8 which is of sufficient length to exert its force on the cap or, in

other words,.tobe compressed when the cap is forced into locking engagement with the receptacle in the manner just described. It is the exposed end of the chalk 18 which actually bears against the free end of the spring 8 at such a time, and said spring is long enough to exert its influence on the cap even when the chalk is nearly or quite used up, the spring then entering the chalk chamber in the cap. The inner end or nose of the .cap 16 and the outer end of the hook 15 are rounded or beveled so as to enable said cap to slide into engagement readily with said hook.

It will be plain from the foregoing that, owing to the shape of the cap 16 and the shoulder 19, no care need be exercised in inserting said cap into the receptacle 6, since locking engagement with the latch 10 is always insured provided the cap be pushed way in.

By fastening a butt-piece 20, of rubber or other suitable material, on the closed end of the cap 16, by means of a screw 21 or otherwise, we furnish a cushion for the butt end of the cue 1. This cushion is in position excepting at such times as the cap 16 with the chalk 18 is removed for use.

A cue equipped with this device is not disfigured or improperly balanced and there is nothing to interfere with the proper and convenient handling of the same, since the only part of said device which is exposed to view excepting at the extreme butt end is the push-button 1 3 and that is out of the way in the opening 3, and the extra weight added by the device is at the butt where it is rather to be desired thanotherwise.

In practice, when it is desired to chalk the tip (not shown) of the cue 1, the push-button 13 is pressed inward against the resiliency of the spring 14, which action rocks the latch 10 on its pivot 11 and carries the hook 15 out of engagement with the shoulder 19 into the slot 9, and immediately the spring 8 acts to eject the cap 16 from the receptacle 6. Said cap is caught by the'operator in one hand, and the chalk 18 is then applied .to the tip in the usual manner. After chalking the tip, the cap 16 is thrust What we claim as our invention, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with a cue, a chalkholder comprising a latch-provided cylindrical receptacle permanently attached to said cue, a resilient member in such receptacle affixed at one end thereto, and a cylindrical cap for chalk, such cap having a shoulder extending clear around it and beingadapted to be inserted in the receptacle and to engage with its shoulder the receptacle latch, regardless of what portion of said shoulder may be opposed to said latch, whereby the cap is held in the receptacle against the force of said resilient member.

2. In combination with a cue, a chalkholder comprising a cylindrical receptacle i permanently attached to said one and provided with a spring-pressed latch pivotally mounted therein and havlng an operating member extending from said latch out through the side of the receptacle, an ejector spring in such receptacle afiixed at one end thereto, and a cylindrical cap for chalk, such cap having an annular shoulder adapted to be engaged by said latch when said cap is forced into said receptacle, regardless of what portion of said shoulder may be opposed to said latch, whereby the cap will be held in said receptacle against the force of said ejector spring.

3. In combination with a one. having a chamber in its butt end and an openin leading from such chamber outward througfi one side, a chalk-holder comprising a receptacle fastened in said chamber, a springpressed latch pivotally mounted in such .receptacle and provided at one terminal with a stud having a push-button on the outer end thereof, in such lateral opening insaid cue, and at the other terminal with alhook, an ejector spring in such receptacle, and a cap for chalk, such cap having a shoulder adapted to be engaged by said latch hook when the cap is thrust into said receptacle against the resiliency of said ejector spring.

, 1. A chalk holder-comprising a-receptac1e back into the'receptac'le'fi, against the resili-' a spring-pressed latch pivotally mounted in spring in the receptacle between the inner one side of said receptacle and provided at end thereof and sa1d cap when the latter is 10 one terminal with a stud having a push-butin place.

ton on the outer end thereof, outside of the CARL VICTOR NORMAN. receptacle, and at the other terminal with a GUSTAVUS PETERSON. hook, a cap for chalk adapted to fit into the Witnesses:

receptacle and having a shoulder for engage- F. A. CUTTER,

ment with said latch hook, and an ejector A. C. FAIRBANKS. 

